Evaluation and Impact Assessment of European FP for R

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Evaluation and Impact Assessment of European FP
for RD Points of views from business Dr Leif
Kjaergaard Chief Technology Officer, Danisco
A/S Chairman of the Research and Technological
Innovation Working Group, BUSINESSEUROPE CLORA-CZ
ELO-STOA Conference, 3 December 2008
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Introduction

• General rule for participation in FP7
• Participants have to be legal entities,
  including private companies SMEs, SME
  associations, innovative companies

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Opportunities under the Cooperation programme
( 32 billion - 63)

• Collaborative research
• Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs)
• 6 JTIs identified in FP7
• Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)
• Embedded Computing Systems (ARTEMIS)
• Aeronautics and Air Transport (Clean Sky)
• Nanoelectronics Technologies 2020 (ENIAC)
• Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Initiative (FCH)
• Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
  (GMES)
• European Technology Platforms (ETPs)

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Opportunities under the Ideas programme ( 7.5
billion - 15)

• Aims to boost Europes competitiveness by
  supporting frontier research, which is
  instrumental in producing new knowledge leading
  to future applications and markets
• Projects funding based on the sole criterion of
  excellence
• Implementation by the European Research Council

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Opportunities under the People programme (
4.7 billion - 9,3)

• Specific action Industry-academia pathways and
  partnerships
• Aims to stimulate intersectoral mobility
• and
• increase knowledge-sharing through joint research
  partnerships in long term

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Opportunities under the Capacities programme
( 4.1 billion - 8,1)

• Regions of knowledge initiative
• Supports the development of research-driven
  clusters (funding 0.1 billion)
• Specific measures for SMEs
• Research for the benefit of SMEs (funding
  1.3 billion)

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Participation of business in FP6

• Participation
• 13 907 industrial organisations 19 of
  participations
• In FP5, the participation rate was 10
• Budget share
• 3 billion 18 of EC funding
• In FP5, their share was 10

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Why are companies interested in participating?

• Public-private partnerships
• Regional research-driven clusters
• Access to European research infrastructures
• Benefits from technology transfer
• Specific actions, e.g. for SMEs, intersectoral
  mobility

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Why do most companies not participate?

• Complex and time consuming rules for
  participation
• Low success rate of proposal in FP6
• Science and Society 11,5
• SME actions 12,3
• INCO 12,4
• Over-subscription

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From FP6 to FP7 some improvements

• Improved cooperation with industry via JTIs and
  ETPs
• Creation of a Risk Sharing Finance Facility
• A step towards simplification of the procedures
  for participation

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Some issues of concerns

• Evaluation imbalance between academic and non
  academic evaluators
• Contract negotiation very limited harmonisation
  in the implementation of the Commissions rules
  and principles
• A new issue restriction of the use of average
  personnel costs, when making cost statements for
  FP7 cooperation project

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Recommendations for FP8

• Simplify rules and procedures
• Review the selection and evaluation processes
• Develop  Responsible Partnering 

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Simplify rules and procedures

• Simplify
• the rules for participation
• Simplification of the procedures
• Reduction in the number and size of official
  documents
• the framework programme's implementation
• Streamlining funding schemes
• A more limited choice of instruments for more
  coherent funding
• Greater autonomy for partner groups

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Review the selection and evaluation processes

• On the selection side
• Mitigate the negative effects of
  oversubscription the Commission should reinforce
  its role of guidance to potential proposers
• On the evaluation side
• Rebalance between academic and non academic
  evaluators
• Investigate further the idea of a remote
  evaluation

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Develop  Responsible Partnering 

• 5 organisations EIRMA, ProTon Europe, EUA,
  EARTO, BUSINESSEUROPE
• Guide to better practices for collaborative
  research and knowledge transfer between science
  and industry (January 2005)
• Set of tools containing guidelines on 4 issues
• identifying good partners
• constructing the collaborative research agreement
• self assessment guidelines
• support of governmental authorities

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